This site aims to shareprofessional informations and best practices. CultureandCommunicationis targeted at culture professionals,and more specificallymuseum professionals, but alsopassionatefans(and thereare quite a lot).

This sitewishes tohighlightand sharegood practices incommunications, marketingandsponsorshipinthe museum field. Here you will findinterviews withprofessionals just like you and whotell you abouttheir business, but also theirtips andprojects.

Thepublic cultural sectoris still fairlyunresponsive tocommunication, marketing and new media. Most museumsare there because“it‘s there” and they have to compose with it.

However (and fortunately), this is notthe case for all. And these professionals usually struggle to make their voices heard.

Nice marketing nuts in a great circus, I am also a blogger and the founder of Culture and Communication.
As a museum lover, I've always wanted to know more on what was backstage.
My two books on virtual museums have been published at the Manuscrit editions.
My cup of tea: Middle Ages.

After obtaining a Masters degree in Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris, Audrey Gouimenou worked as an educator at the Musée des arts et métiers for three years, before moving into communication project management. Her education has left her openminded to wide-ranging expression in contemporary art, as well as with the need to introduce an artistic dimension to all of her projects.

My name is Cyril Leclerc. I offer, as a freelancer, consulting and communication support to cultural and artistic organizations. Graduated in History of Art and Cultural engineering, I have, throughout my career, specialized in communication until it became my job. In particular, I have spent seven years in charge of communications at the Abbaye aux Dames, la cité musicale (Saintes - France). I am particularly interested in how marketing tools can help cultural projects and how communications can enrich a cultural project and bring it meaning ... I talk about that on communicant.info on, my blog, and also on Culture & Communication!

Ronan Bretel is currently studying law and is a web arts blogger and a consultant in communications for the arts market. He has also founded "Mimesis Communication" (www.mimesis-communication.fr). He is fond of culture, heritage and history.

After years of studying ancient greek and latin, Robin tried to reconcile his love of culture with his passion for the web, lolcats included. That's why he graduated with a Master's degree in Digital Communication at the Sorbonne University, before working for the PR of Museomix, first in France and then in Montreal.
He also painfully wrote two essays dedicated to mutations of the cultural industries linked to the emergence of digital technologies.
Twitter account: @robindotfr

Maria Vlachou is a Consultant in Cultural Management and Communications based in Portugal. She is also the author of the blog Musing on Culture http://musingonculture-en.blogspot.com and the executive director of Access Culture http://acessocultura.org

Seph Rodney was born in Jamaica, and came of age in the Bronx, New York. He has an English degree from Long Island University, a studio art MFA from the University of California, and has submitted a research PhD thesis at Birkbeck College, University of London on how the rhetorical figure of the visitor has changed in art museum discourse in the last generation and how this change is conditioned by UK government cultural policy, the new museology, the onset of an experience economy and the rise of marketing and branding as the primary methods for visitor engagement and audience development.
He writes about contemporary art for several publications, which include Hyperallergic, Artillery Magazine, and the Nomadic Journal. He created, produced, and hosted a radio show in London called The Thread, broadcast on Resonance FM from 2008-2011. He has been a featured speaker in the Favorite Poem Project.

Matt Banner is the owner and writer for On Blast Blog, a resource for both bloggers and online entrepreneurs to find everything they need to better themselves and build their brand. You can find him on Facebook and on Twitter